Rackmount or blade for vmware - You decide..

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IBM and Intel are holding hands now over an initiative to push virtualization on multiprocessors, saying larger, more expandable MP servers deliver the best return on investment.

To prove their point, they’ve come up with a new virtualization benchmarking methodology called vConsolidate that runs multiple instances of consolidated database, mail, web and Java workloads in multiple virtual partitions on IBM’s industry-standard servers that’s supposed to simulate real-world server performance in a typical environment.

It’s supposed to help buyers compare processor platforms and system configurations and pick Intel over AMD.

This sounds fantastic, and might be an ideal way of scoping vmware machine capacity on set platforms. The larger multi processors servers are good, however, I do like the idea of blade servers for vmware, the volume aspect is what attracts me, coupled with the farm idea, the rackmounts you see could easily be cut up and allocated to a business line, give me a blade farm, generic shared infrastructure owned by IT for business service delivery.

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